All Posts Tagged With: "Cisco"
Cisco Teams Up With QLogic to Offer End-to-End Virtualization Technology
QLogic today announced it has set up a partnership with Cisco to offer end-to-end virtualization technology, using Qlogic adapters that allow end-users to realize the benefits of quality of service capabilities in standards-based virtual fabric environments.
13Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVideo interview with George Kurian, Vice President and General Manager of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco (Part 2/2)
In this second part of our interview with George Kurian, he explains about the capabilities of VFrame; being Cisco’s system’s management and provisioning that is aimed at the virtualized network and helps to put the virtual puzzle together. Cisco recognizes the data center as a heterogeneous multivendor environment and plans to supports 3rd party technologies in the future. Cisco sees the notion of what a computer is today, getting truly blended closely with the network as interconnect speeds go up dramatically over the next two to three years.
14Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedVideo interview with George Kurian, Vice President and General Manager of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco (Part 1/2)
In this first part of our interview with George Kurian at Cisco’s headquarters we get to know how Cisco looks at Virtualization in the datacenter from three different sets of product capabilities: pervasive networking platforms, services and VFrame (provisioning and orchestration tools). From his position as the vice president and general manager of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco, he sees the need for server virtualization to be complemented with virtualization capabilities in the network and explains how his teams are engineering the network to be a facilitator for all the virtues Virtualization brings. The goal for George’s data center technology group is to make the network aware of the new atomic unit in the data center: the Virtual Machine and no longer the physical server or port. He goes on pointing to the Nexus series and new introductions for the Catalyst series with capabilities to support some of these (r)evolutionary trends in the data center…
14Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | ContinuedTrading Activity In NetApp, VMware Spikes
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, stocks of both NetApp and VMware have been trading at unusual volumes yesterday.
28Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedTerremark Completes Infinistructure Deployment
Terremark Worldwide today announced the completed deployment of the Infinistructure utility-computing platform at its facilities in Madrid and Amsterdam. The platform will benefit Terremark’s European and American customers and has been met with high demand from current customers and prospects.
26Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVMware, Cisco Join Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program
Microsoft’s Server Virtualization Validation Program, which was first announced in November 2007, and launched last June with the patricipation of Citrix, Sun, Novell and Virtual Iron, signed up two notable new members with Cisco and VMware.
19Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedThere We Go Again: EMC Shares Rise On Acquisition Rumors
This is one rumor that just keeps coming back: Reuters is reporting that EMC shares rose as much as 6.3 percent yesterday on market speculation that the world’s largest maker of corporate storage equipment could be acquired. The company stills holds a majority stake in virtualization juggernaut VMware.
31Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedCisco’s John McCool Talks Virtualization
NetworkWorld published a great interview yesterday with John McCool, senior VP of data center, switching and security at Cisco. McCool sees a great future for virtualization around the company’s most successful product in its entire history, the Catalyst 6500 (and its successor, the Nexus 7000 Series, which was recently unveiled), combined with its own forray into virtualizing the data center with its Data Center 3.0 initiative.
11Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedCisco Talks Up Data Center 3.0 Initiative, Wants To “Demistify Virtualization”
Cisco Systems today announced updates to several of its key products to accelerate applications in Data Center 3.0, Cisco’s vision for a virtualized data center tied together by a unified network fabric.
24Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedCisco And EMC To Merge?
We love rumors. This time, it’s not about EMC selling off its majority stake in VMware to say, Intel. President and chief editor of TMC, Rich Tehrani, is throwing another sweet-sounding one into the air: an upcoming merger between Cisco and EMC.
19May2008 | Robin Wauters | 5 comments | ContinuedMotorola Joins Investors Behind VirtualLogix (Update)
According to PC World, Motorola has joined Cisco, Intel and Texas Instruments in funding mobile virtualization company VirtualLogix.
21Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedCisco APX, Network Virtualization The Right Way?
Selena Frye over at TechRepublic talks about an interesting technology from Cisco called APX (Application eXtension Platform), made up of a hardware card, modified Linux software that runs on the card and a program for software developers.
17Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
